Better Lawns and Gardens

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year! Garden expert Teresa Watkins advises what to do in your landscape for January. Guests Jeff Hughes and Madeline Hooper, stars of the popular national hit PBS series Garden Fit. Madeline and Jeff talk about the importance of warming up and stretching before gardening and discuss their new group workshops. Garden questions include ornamental frost damage to bananas, avocado, mangoes, plumeria, nemotodes in Seville turf, can you grow tomatoes year round, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen every Saturdays from 7am - 9am EST on WFLA- Orlando. Call inh with your garden questions and text messages on 1-888.455.2867 and 23680, Miss the live broadcast? Listen on Audioboom podcast 24/7. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, First show of 2023! Happy New Year! Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides recovery solutions for the Christmas 2022 Polar Vortex freeze that blasted through Florida. Evidence to unprotected tropical plants is evident on cardboard plants, split leaf philodendron, hibiscus, jatropha, sweet almonds. Sponsor Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery in Deland, offers his favorite beneficial native trees and planting advice for the upcoming Florida Arbor Day, January 21, 2023. Garden questions include freeze temperature reports from around the state, plant damage reports, when to fertilize citrus and mangoes, pruning dead branches, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST on WFLA Orlando. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear #ArborDay

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year with a Special Edition – New Year’s Eve Show with Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert, host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin. and producer Lizzie Steele. Special guest interviews with Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery on mangaves, Jim Berry, J. Berry Nursery, on Hollywood Hibiscus and Black Diamond Crape Myrtles, Judson LeCompte, Spring Meadow Nursery, Proven Winner Shrubs of the Year, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only two more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear #PlantDelights #Mangaves #JBerryNursery #HollywoodHibiscus #ProvenWinners #SpringMeadowNursery

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy New Year with a Special Edition – New Year’s Eve Show with Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert, host emeritus, Tom MacCubbin, and producer Lizzie Steele. Recap of activities in 2022. Interesting horticultural discoveries in 2022, landscape issues trending in 2022, most unusual landscape consultations in 2022, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only two more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NewYear

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert, is joined by Southern Gardening All Year Long author Dr. Gary Bachman, MSU, on the traditional Florida native mistletoe. Dirty Word of the Day is Polar Vortex. Garden questions and texts include holiday greetings from listeners, mulching bananas, will milkweed survive a freeze, insulating plumeria, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only a few more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #SouthernGardening #Christmas #freeze #polarvortex #winter #mistletoe

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Christmas is on its way! Logs in the fireplace, footsie pajamas, and freeze warnings. Garden expert Teresa Watkins talks with Wendy Wilber, UF IFAS State Master Gardener Coordinator, about protecting your tropical landscape. Polar vortex will bring 20-degree temperatures to North Florida, 30’s to Central Florida, and 40’s and 50-degree temperatures to South Florida. How to care for your #poinsettia inside your home. Gardening calls and texts include invasive plants, protecting your roses, Starfruit, and Lychee, getting rid of wild Bermudagrass, planting Neem tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only a few more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #WDBO #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #SouthernGardening #Christmas #freeze #polarvortex #winter

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert, chats with the Houseplant Guru, Lisa Eldred Steinkopf, about growing Christmas Cactus. Dirty Word of the Day is phenotypic plasticity. Garden questions and texts include flea control, Eucharis lily, plumeria, where to find a Cracker rose, Atala butterfly, lubber grasshopper, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only a few more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsBloom: The Secrets of Growing Flowering Houseplants Year-round. Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #succulents #Bloom #books #HouseplantGuru

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, It’s planting Citrus tree season! Garden expert Teresa Watkins chats with Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialist Nursery on the how to grow citrus trees and how to protect them from freezing in winter. How does Producer Lizzie Steele find time to shop for Christmas. Upcoming cold front will be arriving next week – buy your frost blanket now. Gardening calls and texts include finding South Florida native Atala butterfly in Central Florida, growing cabbage, will tomatoes grow now, Meyers lemon tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only a few more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #citrus #winter #trees

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert interviews garden author and podcaster Carol Michel about her Christmas garden book recommendations. The Gardenangelists podcast. Dirty Word of the Day is bottom watering. Garden questions and texts include codling moths on apple trees, how much mulch is necessary to prevent weeds, what are Teresa’s favorite plant combinations, hurricane-damaged avocado tree – will it survive, time of the year to prune shrubs and ornamental grasses, what to do in your landscape in December, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. Only a few more spots left. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #RyanMcEkenay #BaileyNursery #TheHouseplantGuru #CarolMichel #KatyCollyns #Christmas #books

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins learns how healthy microgreens are to eat and easy to grow with Knowing Nature CEO Rachel Haber’s and her innovative microgreens grow kit. Gardening calls and texts include should Satsuma flowers picked off young tree, how much mulch should be used to prevent weeds, Christmas cactus dropping blooms, Washingtonia palms, local teacher and school help students grow a community garden, Pharoah’s Mask Colocasia, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Rachel Haber, Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #microgreens #RachelHaber #growkits #Christmas #Chriatmasgifts

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Teresa Watkins, host and garden expert interviews the vibrant and inspirational author, Jenny Rose Carey, about her books, “Glorious Shade” and “The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide,” and meeting Teresa and her garden tour next year in England for The Best of English Gardens and Chelsea Flower Show. Garden questions and texts include ants in the landscape, covering plants with duct tape, dollarweed removal, wild Bermudagrass, pansies are available now, planting beet seeds, citrus gall, leaning Papaya tree, and lots of Thanksgiving gratitude. and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Jenny Rose Carey, Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #JennyRoseCarey #Northview #gardens #England

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the current unusually cold temperatures for November in Florida with UF/IFAS Extension agent, Jeremy Rhoden. Jeremy provides winter protection for landscapes and how to prepare for a freeze. Teresa provides what to do for your citrus trees this week. Gardening calls and texts include temporary greenhouses, Mexican petunia Botrytis Blight, should cherry tomatoes be held over winter for reuse in spring, orchid protection, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #MarionCounty #UFIFAS #winter #landscape

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Hurricane Nicole left damaged gardens and yards. Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins discusses with Tom MacCubbin’s the priorities of storm clean-up in the landscape. Garden questions and texts include mango tree not producing, Polk County listener received 16 inches of rain during Nicole, can we plant cherry tomatoes now, foxtail palms in the ground, Roundup as an herbicide in garden beds, cutting mums back, soursop tree’s first harvest, information on Teresa’s garden tour to The Best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Get Tom MacCubbin's books: http://bit.ly/3O1d3yJ Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Reuters, Marco Bello. Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #HurricaneNicole #stormdamage #windresistant #fruittrees #fruit #tropical

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Hurricane Nicole storms through Florida! Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery talk about the tropical storm’s damage, wind resistance of trees and palms, and the good news that the timing of growing fruit in your landscape is now. Gardening calls and texts include tropical storm-damaged tibouchina, winter protection of Zone 8b grapefruit and Satsumas, Duranta erecta and whiteflies, fertilizer timing for pear trees, using water to protect citrus during a freeze, memories of eating grapefruit, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #HurricaneNicole #stormdamage #windresistant #fruittrees #fruit #tropical

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins is joined by Home Garden and Homestead’s editor Randy Schultz with Gifts for Gardeners this Holiday Season. Randy announces his new podcast “Camp Codger” – Rocking Chair Wisdom from Three Old Guys. A podcast for people in their Golden Years. Dirty Word of the Day is Taproot. Dana Venrick, Quality Green Specialists Nursery with new inventory of fruit trees and native trees for the landscape. Garden questions and texts include shade trees for Central Florida, information on Teresa’s garden tour to The Best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show May 16 . https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #CampCodger #Homegardenandhomestead

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins and Mister Landscapers’s Jo Reese discuss changes with Daylight Savings Time. Fall back with your alarm clock, smoke detectors, and 1x a week watering with automatic irrigation systems. Low-volume irrigation kits for your bird baths, raised beds, and gardens. Gardening calls and texts include what to do in November in your landscape, what to grow, plant sales at Mead Gardens and Clermont Garden Club Nov 5th , cutting back spirea, can fog be used as supplemental watering for your lawn, what’s causing Cassia and Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrows blooming, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #DaylightSavingsTime #Fallback

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins with Producer Lizzie Steele, talk about the benefits of bats, bat trivia, how to attract bats, and the best places to hang a bat house. Teresa asks pumpkin riddles, and offers flowers and herbs to plant in a Florida Fall garden. Dirty Word of the Day is Dodder. Garden questions and texts include organizations and departments that are involved with habitat restoration, cutting back a woody ornamental hedge, edible plants from seed, is it too soon to plant tomatoes, bat-face cuphea, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Free DIY Bat House Plans How to grow a Goth Garden. Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Halloween #bats

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Happy Halloween! Garden expert and host Teresa Watkins interviews Dr. Jamie Daugherty, UF/IFAS Residential Horticultural and Master Gardener agent about Florida’s ethereal, scary, and endangered plants, such as “Ghost plants”, “Witches broom,” “Skeletonizers,” and “Zombie” trees. Gardening calls and texts include Jatropha bush yellowing, lichens on a plum tree, Plant sales at Mead Gardens and Clermont Garden Club Nov 4th and 5th , what is causing Mexican ruellia leaves to turn white, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Visit the UF/IFAS Lake County Extension Discovery GardensHow to create a Goth Garden.Only a few more spots left! Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa WatkinsListen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680.#WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Halloween

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele, discuss the many varieties of mints in the world. Dirty Word of the Day is Herb. Teresa gives her tips on growing a beautiful herb garden. Garden questions and texts include pruning ilex schillings, rabbits are eating geraniums, Deer and rabbit repellent, Plantskydd, dying palms along the interstate in Orlando, help with chinch bugs in zoysia, how to cut basil, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Teresa's correction: In the excitement of the show, I mentioned dried vs grocery store brands, and I meant fresh herbs. Dried versus fresh -- 1 to 3 ratio. The joy of live recording. Mea Culpa. Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and producer Lizzie Steele are enjoying the record-breaking low temperatures as Fall arrives in Florida a month or two early! Weather reports from callers and listeners as to the freezing and below freezing temperatures in North Florida. Gardening calls and texts include gardening in Alaska, is it too early for pansies and snapdragons, plants that attract dragonflies, Mosquito Bits and Dunks, squirrels in the broccoli, propagating figs and a fig tree not fruiting, what to look for in fertilizer, planting turf over sawdust, can fruit trees be planted now, scale on crown of thorns, cold weather and grapefruit, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show May 16 - 25, 2023. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins and Dr. Gary Bachman, host of Southern Gardening TV and author of Southern Gardening All Year Round, discuss being the keynote speaker at the UF/IFAS Florida Master Gardener 39th State Conference in Orlando. Teresa and Gary chat about tools for EarthBOX® , reusing soils for raised beds, fertilizer for vegetables. Garden questions and texts include pruning Knockout™ roses now, using recycled water on vegetables, advantages of Earthboxes™ over containers, red bell peppers rotting but jalepenos are doing just fine in the same pot, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, EarthBOX® Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Urbanfarms #HeritageCottage #GaryBachman #SouthernGardening #author #hurricaneian #UF #FloridaMasterGardeners

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert and host Teresa Watkins is joined in the studio by Dr. Gary Bachman, host of Southern Gardening TV and author of Southern Gardening All Year Round, discussing landscaping in hurricane-prone states and growing over 1000 pounds of tomatoes at his Heritage Cottage Urban Nano Farm. Dr. Bachman grows food all year round in his 136 EarthBOX®. Gardening calls and texts include what to do with bananas damaged in Hurricane Ian, doveweed in turf and using herbicides, favorite hummingbird plants, how to fertilize peppers, growing period for peppers, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, EarthBOX®Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Urbanfarms #HeritageCottage #GaryBachman #SouthernGardening #author #hurricaneian #UF #FloridaMasterGardeners

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert Teresa Watkins lightens the mood with Halloween spirit and talks with award-winning garden author, Carol J. Michel about her new holiday book for gardeners of all ages, The Halloween Hare. Dirty Word of the Day is Vivipary. Garden questions and texts include turfgrass growing in shade, cantaloupe and watermelon not blooming, citrus tree not flowering, lime tree with bugs, gardenia with no scent, daffodils for the coast, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit:Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #Halloween #childrensbook #author

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, With Hurricane Ian devastating Florida landscapes, garden expert Teresa Watkins, discusses with @UF Lake County Extension Commercial Horticultural agent on what to do in your landscape to recover and replant. Issues such as flooding, re-staking leaning trees, and fertilizing. Dana Venrick, owner of Quality Green Specialists Nursery is open for business. Mike Clukey, Venice calls in and provides the trees that made it through the hurricane and what did not make it. Gardening calls and texts include does milkweed need to be pruned, which turfgrass grows in shade, contradictions about turfgrass in shade, how long to wait before replacing a tree, when to plant tithonia seeds, when is a good time to divide Lily of the Nile, walking iris, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: :Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #HurricaneIan

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses future gardening trends for 2023 with Garden Media Group President Katie Dubow. New trends that embrace “Individual Accessibility” and believing in yourself with the #Teslaeffect, “Down-aging,” 2023’s Color of the Year, and much more. Garden questions and texts include gardening updates from North Florida listeners, soil for citrus and how often to water citrus in containers, growing citrus in Zone 8, how bad are mushrooms in your lawn, crapemyrtle buds that don’t open, transplanting vegetables into larger pots, lichens on oleander, brown to green ratio for compost, growing citrus indoors, propagating Simpson Stopper, Impatiens not blooming well, zoysia grass, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, Garden Media Group Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #tours #Chelsea #UK #London #ChelseaFlowerShow #gardentrends #trends

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, provides hurricane Ian updates for Florida and ways to prepare your landscape for the hurricane’s arrival. Teresa talks with Dr. Braham Dhillon, Mycologist, UF IFAS Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center on palm diseases in Florida. Dr. Dhillon has developed a new test for homeowners to determine if they have Ganoderma Butt Rot in their palms. Gardening calls and texts include white powder on palms, should you prune plumeria before or after a hurricane, what kind of soil for containerized citrus lemons, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Ganoderma Palm Test for homeowners. Join Teresa on her exciting and historic tour of the Best English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show!. https://bit.ly/3xU7JGT Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins, UF/IFAS, Dr. Monica Elliott Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #tours #Chelsea #UK #London #ChelseaFlowerShow #palms #diseases #mycology #UFIFAS

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Summer fertilizer bans come to an end in most Florida counties at the end of the month. Garden expert, Teresa Watkin, is joined by the “Gardening for Dummies” series, Lance Walheim to discuss the best ways to fertilize your lawn, what type of fertilizer is best, and weed control. Garden questions and texts include planting citrus with root enhancer, weed pre-emergents, planting Pineapple Guava as a hedge, transplanting a Pinwheel Jasmine,, pepper plants need more sun, Turks Cap for hummingbirds, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Lance Walheim's recommendation for David Attenborough's "Hummingbirds" documentary. Join Teresa as she tours The Best of English Gardens and the Chelsea Flower Show May 16th - May 25th, 2023. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #tours #Chelsea #UK #London #ChelseaFlowerShow #turf #lawncare

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, remarks on the poignancy and symbolism of Queen Elizabeth’s funeral wreath. Hummingbirds have started their migration to South America. The National Garden Bureau provides new hummingbird-attracting plants, including Salvia ‘Hummingbird Falls’, in the garden centers. Teresa adds her favorite Florida native plants and trees to provide sustenance for these aerial dynamos on their seasonal trek. Gardening calls and texts include lemongrass ‘rust,’ listeners’ stories on Florida’s year-round hummingbirds, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Lance Walheim's recommendation for David Attenborough's "Hummingbirds" documentary. Go with Teresa as she leads the Best of English Gardens and Chelsea Flower Show 2023. Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #tours #Chelsea #UK #London #ChelseaFlowerShow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Big News! Teresa announces her next garden tour in Spring 2023! The Best of English Gardens and The Chelsea Flower Show will be May 16th through May 25th, 2023! Nowhere in the world is the passion for horticulture expressed more vividly than in Britain, where gardens have served as inspiration for painters, writers and poets for centuries. From great country estates to miniscule inner-city gardens, the British use their exceptionally long growing season to fullest advantage, and we’ve timed your visit to bring you the best of English gardens. This is your invitation to see some of England’s most famous gardens at a time of year when color runs rampant. You will visit the Royal Horticultural Society’s flagship garden at Wisley, Kiftsgate and Hidcote Manor. Royal schedules permitting, you will also take a private tour of King Charles III’s estate at Highgrove. You will explore Christopher Lloyd’s gardens at Great Dixter, that offer innovative ideas set against a backdrop of topiary, mixed borders and natural ponds. Additional highlights include time in the Georgian city of Bath, and visits to many other magnificent gardens, including Sissinghurst, Iford Manor and Stourhead. In London you will have a full day at the Chelsea Flower Show. Your tour includes membership in the Royal Horticultural Society so that you may attend on members-only day when the crowds are smaller than on the public days. There will also be free time in London to explore famous sights, museums and galleries you may wish to visit, from the Tate to the tiny Museum of Garden History. Come along and join other garden lovers for a stroll through the most impressive English gardens. This trip is a quintessential celebration of springtime. Teresa: I would love to have you join me on this wonderful bouquet list (pronounced bucket) adventure! Garden questions and texts include keeping plumeria small and dealing with rust, yellow jasmine, black spot on roses, when to plant edamame, UF Turf Field Day CEUs, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentour #travel #tours #Chelsea #UK #London #ChelseaFlowerShow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert, Teresa Watkins, raves about the Fall Harvest moon, the peak of this year’s (non?) hurricane season. Dr. Bryan Unruh, Associate Center Director and Professor of Turfgrass Science, at the West Florida Research Center and Educatio Center announces the centennial anniversary of turf research Field Day on October 5th. This @UFturf event is a great opportunity for professional landscape industry and homeowners to meet and discuss turf research with scientists. CEUs provided. Event is open to everyone. Gardening calls and texts include solitary bee mounds, Four o’ Clocks, getting rid of elephant ears, insects in garden, anemic Foxtail palm, weeding a rose garden and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic credit: University of Florida Turf Science Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #WNDB #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #turf #FieldDay #centennial #UF

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, This week on Special Report with Bret Baier, there is a new series on the impending global food shortage (Starts at 15:44). September is National Fruits and Vegetables Month. Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses the need for more people to grow their own food. Leah Brooks provides benefits and tips of growing your own food. Lizzie wants to grow grains. Dirty word of the day is Macronutrients. Celebrating International Beard Day, Teresa loves Bad A** beard products on Tony. Her favorite scent is Black Pepper, Leather, and Cedar. Gardening questions, emails, and texts, Blue ginger not growing, seeding your Fall garden, Jatropha and Tibouchina shrubs not growing after being pruned, chlorotic lantana, mold on patio, Eugenia tree branches not growing back, how you should fertilize with a fertilizer ban, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Brie Arthur Gardening with GrainsPhoto credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST on WFLA Orlando and iHeart Radio. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #grains #global #foodshortages #ediblelandscaping #fruits #vegetables #September

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Fall is 19 days away. September is National Fruit and Vegetable Month. Teresa and Lizzie celebrate International Beard Day and International Bacon Day. Starting off the morning with ‘Old-World’ traditional olive brining with Quality Green Specialists nursery owner, Dana Venrick. Teresa and Dana chat about how easy to grow olive trees in Florida. Dana provides his Mediterranean recipe of brining olives that relies on a raw egg for measuring the salt. Garden calls, emails, and texts include loving elephant ear plants and getting rid of elephant ear plants, fungus in zoysia grass, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7edDana Venrick's Old-World traditional brine recipe: Photo credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #winter #WRLN #WiOD #WBOB #radio #podcasts #gardens #QualityGreenSpecialists #SummitResponsibleSolutions #BlackKow

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins and host of Horttube channel, Jim Putnam discuss easy curb appeal for do-it-yourself homeowners. Jim provides colorful and low-maintenance plants for the Fall garden from Southern Living Plant Collection, Encore Azaleas, and Sunset Plant Collection. Purchase great curb appeal plants from Great Garden Plants online. Dirty word of the day is Chenopods. Lizzie discusses her chocolate sunflowers. Gardening questions and texts, planting a bird nest fern in the ground, houseplants with mealybugs,. cutting poinsettias back, pruning ligustrums, what do I do with my braided hibiscus that won’t stand up, pruning lychee tree, who’s to blame for love bugs in Florida, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo credit: Teresa WatkinsJim Putnam, Sunset Plant Collection, Encore Azaleas, and Southern Living Plant Collection, Garden Media Group. Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST on WFLA Orlando and iHeart Radio. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #curbappeal #JimPutnam #Horttube #gardenvideos #SouthernLivingPlantCollection #EncoreAzaleas #SunsetPlantCollection

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins starts off with bragging on her Hollywood Hibiscus, “Rico Suave”: This celebrity flower collection from J. Berry Nursery will light up any ‘walk of fame’. Rave reviews for this tropical celebrity! His name is Rico Suave. Isn't he gorgeous? I premiered this superstar in my garden in May and he has been performing all summer long! “ Teresa responds to web emails on herbicide for goosegrass and bacterial leaf spot on Chickasaw plum tree. Garden calls and texts include lack of rain, olive tree not fruiting, why are only some of my hibiscus blooming, pest control for mealy bugs and cottony cushion scale, how much to prune hibiscus and can I do it now, perfect text messages, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7ed Photo credit: of Hollywood Hibiscus: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST on WFLA Orlando and iHeart Radio. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #HollywoodHibiscus #JBerryNursery #RicoSuave #tropicals

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins chats about her recent vacation and her visit with Tony Avent, Plant Delights Nursery. She learns about “crevice gardens” trends invented by Tony Avent, plantsman and proprietor. The Dirty Word of the Day is mangave. Garden calls and texts include how to prepare old potting soil for use in container, jacaranda tree not thriving, pineapple harvesting, what to do with coffee grounds, when to trim bottlebrush, brown spots on hydrangea, small fruit o red pear cactus, pruning palms and palm fruits, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7edPhoto credit: of Teresa’s Crevice Garden Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #NorthCarolina #nursery #PlantDelights #Tony Avent #mangaves #succulents

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins provides details of her vacation to Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Rhode Island. Her “Rhod trip” to visit Rhodwood, the inspirational home of North Carolina’s most outstanding landscape designer, Jay Sifford. Teresa describes her new plants for her landscape and her discovery that leads to new insights of the Kingston Trio’s song, “Tom Dooley” and finding the burial place of her 7th and 8th great grandparents. Gardening questions and texts include the niece of the lyricist of “Tom Dooley,” propagating dwarf papaya seeds,the real name of a butterfly bush, solution to “take-all-root rot, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photo credit of Rhodwood: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow 3Rhodwood #NorthCarolina #nursery #PlantDelights #JaySifford

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses responsible pest control, Summer control of mosquitos with Summit Mosquito Bits and Dunks. with Randy Schultz, editor of the award-winning Home Garden and Homestead website. Dirty Word of the Day. Gardening questions and texts include how to control root nematodes in the vegetable garden, propagating gardenias, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: Summit Chemicals, Home Garden and Homestead, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #mosquitos #homegardenandhomestead #homesteading

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses the only low-volume irrigation system she recommends for Florida gardens with Mister Landscaper representative, Jo Reese. Teresa highlights her newest tropical beauties for shade and indoor containers, and what to do in your landscape for the month of August. Gardening calls and texts include alternatives for Mexican petunia, pepper and tomato pests, do and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Photos of Teresa's new tropical plant collection: https://bit.ly/3oWpKzkGraphic credit: Mister Landscaper, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #MisterLandscaper #waterconservation #lowvolume #irrigation

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins is saddened at the news that the Monarch Butterfly species has been put on the Endangered Species list but Garden for Wildlife Senior Director, Mary Phillips explains the designation and how planting the right native plants will help protect Monarch butterflies. Teresa and Mary also discuss the newly named invasive species of “Feral Cats.” Gardening questions and texts include why isn’t my corn growing taller, what color of bell pepper to buy from the produce section to get seeds, design question: is it better to install in summer or winter for best irrigation conservation, how to get beautiful crape myrtles like they have in North Carolina, Monarch butterfly, no chrysalises, benefits of feral cats, when to cut back lantana during the year, avocado tree not producing fruit, can I cut cypress knees in my lawn, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 National Wildlife Federation "Keeping Birds Safe from Outdoor Cats" https://bit.ly/3ziyjJl Graphic credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #GardenforWildlife #NWF #Pollinators #butterflies #Feralcats #caturday

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins is joined by QualityGreenSpecialist Nursery owner, @DanaVenrick, to discuss how Azomite‘s beneficial minerals help Florida sandy soils for better plant health. Teresa updates on having hope for growing citrus again in Florida despite citrus greening. Proper use of herbicides in summertime. Gardening calls and texts include amendments for raised beds and houseplants, removing moss from sago, clover-like weed in turf, propagating crape myrtle from sucker, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic credit: @Azomite, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #SHE #landscaping #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WSKY973 #WiOD #gardening #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #FloridaNewsNetwork

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins ia joined by Chris VanCleave, the Redneck Rosarian, to discuss rose care in summer and answers callers’ questions. Other gardening questions and texts include flies in the landscape, replacing dirt from a removed oak tree area, do weeping willows grow in Florida, groundcovers for a sunny area, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Photography credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins discusses hot summer weather, rain storms, tropical vegetables to plant, and beneficial bugs. July is an optimal time to solarize your weedy garden bed. . Gardening calls and texts include watering an indoor kalanchoe, oleander caterpillars, milkweed bugs, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x744 Photography credit: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #talkradio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins discusses summertime issues and what to do in your backyard. Garden questions and texts includes getting rid of snails, perennials under a pygmy date palm, fertilizing mangos and citrus, planting crocosmia and celery in containers, plumeria, book on bromeliads, spots in lawns, is it mildew or Asian Cycad Scale on sago palm, plants keep dying under tree, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7@SouthernLivingmag “Pros and Cons on Growing Clover Lawns.” Photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins provides advice on when and how much to water to prevent fungal diseases in summertime turf. Have you ever thought of growing crocosmias? They are beautiful and easy to grow in Florida! Easy alternative to turf? Check out Southern Living's Pros and Cons of Clover Lawns. Gardening calls and texts include controlling weeds in Bermudagrass, invasive Bolivian sunflowers and elephant ears, pruning avocados and hibiscus, Agama lizards, olive tree blooms, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 @SouthernLiving Pros and Cons on Growing Clover Lawns Growing Crocosmia UF EDIS Photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins describes her recent Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour to America’s Garden Capital. The tour group visited Chanticleer Garden, Longwood Botanical Gardens, Winterthur Museum, Gardens, and Library, and Bartram’s Garden. Tour photographs will be uploaded to Better Lawns and Gardens Facebook page. Dirty Word of the Day is evapotranspiration. Garden questions and texts includes how to listen to Better Lawns and Gardens podcasts, invasive African snails, growing St Augustinegrass under Norfolk Island pines. BONIDE Captain Jack's™ Deadbug Brew, plumeria scale, and growing hydrangeas in Central Florida and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Graphic and photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins returns back from Brandywine Garden Extravaganza Tour with much appreciation to Tom MacCubbin who filled in as host emeritus during her trip. Dana Venrick, owner of the native tree nursery Quality Green Specialists in Deland, reminds gardeners to watch for wilting in the summer garden. Gardening calls and texts include hurricanes and rainfall, more weather, African snails, what to do in July in your garden, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic and photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Tom MacCubbin, Host Emeritus for 34 years fills in for Teresa Watkins who is touring Brandywine Valley gardens this week. Dirty Word of the Day is “mudding in.:” Tom interviews Lance Walheim, horticulturist, farmer, and garden author on his move to a new zone, new garden climate in Portland, Oregon. Garden questions and texts include propagating rain lilies, how to get rid of Virginia Creeper, slow-growing grapefruit tree, Chaya tree not doing well, groundcover varieties, wilting mango trees, small green worms – help, getting rid of Brazilian Pepper, irrigation pressure, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Father's Day gifts: Tom MacCubbin's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/3xBlDMU Lance Walheim's Gardening Books: https://amzn.to/3tKegS2 Graphic and photography credits: Lance Walheim Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert and Better Lawns and Gardens Host Emeritus, Tom MacCubbin fills in for Teresa Watkins on her garden tour to the Brandywine Valley, America’s Garden Capital. Tom discusses the current incredibly hot temperatures, Father’s Day gifts, National Pollinator Week, and summer starting, with preparations for a Fall vegetable and fruit gardening season with longtime listener and friend, Jim Alison, in North Florida. Gardening calls and texts include best peach varieties for Florida, tomato plants declining, how does heat index affects plants, putting holes in containers for drainage, how often to water sod, groundcover varieties, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Father’s Day Gifts – Tom MacCubbin’s Booiks https://amzn.to/3xBlDMU Lance Walheim’s Books https://amzn.to/3tKegS2 Graphic and photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 2 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Garden expert Teresa Watkins answers questions and provides advice on planting, pruning, growing vegetables, landscape design, and pest problems. Teresa interviews the delightful, down to earth, down home, retired Extension Horticulture Specialist from the University of Tennessee. Carol Reese is a nationally-known speaker, who blends gardening knowledge, natural lore, and her quirky humor to educate and explain horticulture to her audiences. A columnist in several newspapers and a writer for gardening magazines, Carol “attributes her love of horticulture to being raised on a farm by generations of plant nuts, including a grandfather who dynamited his garden spot each spring to “break up his hard pan.” It was very cathartic to listen to Carol’s blend of instinctive and academic philosophy, Dirty Word of the Day is fenestration. Garden questions and texts include update on North Florida weather, apple varieties for the Tampa area, agreement with Carol Reese, gardenia dead branches, how to transplant a tree, fertilizing, invasives, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7 Contact Carol Reese: https://bit.ly/3y1yIQV Graphic and photography credits: Carol Reese, Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #natives #CarolReese

Better Lawns and Gardens Hour 1 – Coming to you from Summit Responsible Solutions Studios, Gardening expert Teresa Watkins celebrates National Mosquito Control Week with Bill Stengel, National Sales Director for Summit Responsible Solutions, maker of organic Mosquito Bits and Dunks. Teresa provides the devastating results of Citrus Greening ,to Florida’s citrus industry. Gardening calls and texts include compost ingredients, weather, what to do in June in your garden, and more. https://bit.ly/3c1f5x7Graphic and photography credits: Teresa Watkins Listen to Better Lawns and Gardens every Saturday 7 am - 9 am EST. Call in with your garden questions 1.888.455.2867, or text 23680. #WFLF #WFLA #FNN #BetterLawns #gardening #Florida #planting #gardeninglife #radio #southflorida #northflorida #centralflorida #tropical #floridalife #photography #SHE #fertilizer #turf #grass #landscaping #fruits #vegetables #Orlando #Sarasota #Miami #FortLauderdale #BLGradio #WRLN #WiOD #2022 #gardening #fertilizer #SummitResponsibleSolutions #QualityGreenSpecialists #BlackKow #gardentours #travel